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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
JOHN h.
he Gives Some Good Advice 10
Young Men.

IOUuk Moh
1t is a grand thing to be a young
man; to have life before you. Lie IS
behind me. My record is pretty
nearly made; yours is to make. l
can't change my record TO save my
life. 1 can't undo a deed l have done;
unsay a word l have spoken to save
my soul. No more can you. You are
making your record. We old men
have our record nearly made, and we
can't change it. 1t is awful thing
when a man is sixty-fve years OF age
to look out upon a stained, smeafed,
smudged record, and know he can't
change it. Thank God, there is a
man who can wipe out the lnlqulty
sufficient to save us, as a sehoolboy
wipes the sum off the slate. Even II a
mar is forgiven, it leaves a mark upon
him he will never recover from-never.
"Young men, you have life before
you, and you will have to map out
which direction you will take. They
tell us that eight miles above us moth
ing animal can exist. 1t is death to
ali animal life eight miles in that
direction. 1t don't depend on the
distance you travel, but on the direc-
ton and when Il man takes the wrong
direction he knows it. Young men,
you need not tell me when you are
doing wrong you don't know it.. You
do. There is not q young man that is
breaking his mothers heart by dis
sipation but knows it; knows that
every glass he drinks will be a thorn
in the way for him. He knows it.
What do men say? ooh! young men
will be young men, They ought to
be. l always look with suspicion on
old heads on young shoulders. You
young men can be young as long as
you live. Years don't make a man
old. There is many a man 40 years
of age who is younger and fresher at
heart than some young old men OF %
who have broken themselves all down
by dissipation.
81 would say, then, to young men
there is no power, in my opinion to-
dav, to be so dreaded by us as a nation,
as individuals, as communities as this
evil Of drink, and it rests with young
men to fight it,"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
Condition of the state.

The Sacramento Bee says: The
railways are totally unable to carry
the multitudes who are thronging to
the State. Passengers bound west
have to wait their chances for a seat,
and are not unlucky if their delay
does not exceed 0 than three or
four days. The Santa Fe is com
PEELED to run three sections of it's
overland daily, and then the facili-
ties for getting into the State are
causing much complaint. The South
ern Pacific, yer its two transconti-
mental lines, is pouring in about
1000 people a day, so that it is safe
enough to say that the total influx
from all sources is $500 daily. We
may expect this to continue for about
sixty days, and that means $50, 900
new people in the State. OF these it
is not likely that less than 100, 900
will remain and become permanent
residents.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
A CROOKED RIVER HISTORIAN.
The Sinuous Course Of the OcmuI.
gee in Georgia.

The Sinuous Course Of the OcmuI.
gee in Georgia.
"The Ocmulgee in Georgia is the
crookedest navigable river in the world"
said Andy Patterson, a former resident
of that State.
During the civil war 1 took a trip
up that stream on a steamer as far as
Macon. On account of the difficulty of
navigating it the boat tied up at night
and the passengers camped On the shore.
The camp fire we built next to the last
evening of the voyage served for the fol.
lowing night, for after steaming over 100
miles we found ourselves on tying up but
a few yards from the fire we had camped
by on the night preceding, the embers Of
which were still smoking. The turns in
the river were so sharp that a constant
lookout on the boats bow was necessary
to determine which way the current was
flowing, as that was the only method
whereby the pilot could discover whether
he was ascending or descending the
stream"
At the close of the narrative the
listeners silently and simultaneously re.
moved their head.coverings in acknowl.
edgement of the distinguished ability of
the Georgian as a crooked river historian.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05

Pittsburg Commercial Gazette:
West Virginia is a small, sparsely set
tied mountain State, neal Pennsylva-
mia, but it has the biggest syndicate of
liars that ever imposed upon distant
newspapers. Never a day passes that
a sensation OF some kind is not sent
out from it. Ii all the crimes that are
related as happening within its bounds
actually took place, one-half the popu-
lation would be in Jail, a quarter
would be officers of the law, and the
other quarter would be fugitives from
justice. If all the discoveries of min
eral wealth were true, it would be pro-
ducing more gold than California,
more silver than Nevada, more coal
and iron than Pennsylvania, more dia-
monds than South Africa, and more
building stone than the whole New
England States. If all the bears and
panthers and wildcats and snakes do
business there that are reported, it
would be safer to travel through the
jungles OF Africa than through a West
Virginia forest. If all the strange
people live there that are said to, the
museums of the world would not want
for freaks for the next hundred years.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
THRIFTY UNDkRrAkEss.
A Lucrative Trade whose Follower
Cannot well be BoycOlted.

.rsoe whose foAhoWers
csnnos "eii be beycOssed.
1t must have been remarked by every
one what an especially prosperous class
Of psonle nn5sr,.Lsrs -
rute'
iy one is iouno VINO seems to
have a hare time in keeping the wolf
and creditors from his door, but such q
case is cause for commsnt anon, al n.
~. m.uha-
fooS sor : mn,h ne osA.'' ana gives
80 aIa..s.n sossip asa Oonstaoie'
sup mere was never an 1n-
Ie.:aAS Ade pvor VINO a.senaeo TO ms
"". this CITY the iuherai ui'
80 600 - s,n ooa clear prons OIL from
- ~ year eaen' according
" ,ne ol 'raoe lone ana the So
.ne pssrons. AN unoer.
saI ens W De ousy, never tries
w push Aue. ana aPpsrent,y cares nat
w nv "Any lh.elnnenls ne conducts
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
MY Red Stockings.

Bingley is a bashful man when la
dies are around. He was walking
down Fourth avenue the other morn
ing after the rain and it was very
muddy. People on foot had worn a
single crossing file over a side street
that was fairly dry, and Bingley came
up just as two ladies were on the point
of crossing. The older one stopped
behind to hitch up her dress a trife to
avoid the mud, and Bingley followed
close behind the younger and pretty
one, who thought her companion was
still following her. Bingley, who is a
bachelor, noticed her trim figure, the
neatness of her dress and hair with
pleasure. But what was his horror
after the street was crossed to see her
turn half round and inquire in a mat
ter of fact tone, "Could you see my
red stockings?" Bingley stammered
out something and made a wild dash
down the side street, and the girl, COW
cred with confusion, continued on her
course with her amused companion.
MINNEAPOLIS Star.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
EQUINE FONDNEss ron MUSIC.
A Veterans Truthful Narrative of
an Illustrative Case.

A Veterans Truthful Narrative of
an Illustrative Case.
"All animals have a liking for music,
but a horse owned by my father had a
fondness for the blare of trumpets and
the roll of drums that was almost a
mania" remarked a veteran relic OF the
old Wing party.
During the Tippecanoe campaign was
just ~sprouting into manhood. Fox, the
horse alluded to, was then a four.year-
old, sixteen. hands high stallion. Our
residence was on the road between two
New York towns, and vehicles with
bands of mnsic almost daily passed on
their way to attend Harrison or Tyler
meetings. Whenever one of these bands
was passing he would leap over a seven
rail fence, enclosing the pasture where
he was kept, and, gaining the road,
follow the band to its destination with
the head erect and prancing in time to
the music. On arriving at the place of
meeting Fox would take a place close to
the music stand and remain there un-
til the band returned home.
son one occasion there were two pc.
litical meetings in progress simultane-
ously in the same town, held about hall
a mile apart, both provided with brass
bands.
son this occasion it was clearly de-.
monstrated that Fox possessed the
faculty of distinguishing between mar
tial and light strains, showing a decided
preference for the former, for whenever
the band struck up a march while the
other was playing a medley, Fox would
dash at headlong speed for the stand
where the band was playing the martial
air.
discovering his preference for mar.
tial strains, the musicians, who had been
playing a march when Fox reached the
stand on a full gallop, would change the
air to a waltz. At the same moment the
band on the other side would strike up a
march. This was kept up for some time
for the amusement of the crowd, in fact
until Fox fell down and died from ex.
haustion.n
The tragic sequel to the veterans mar
rative was a surprise to the listeners,
who silently scattered with a perplexing
expression of countenance that made it
impossible to interpret whether they
were sorrowful over the melancholy fate
of Fox or %astonished at the monumental
mendacity of the narrator.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
A RUSTIC MEMORY.

We met but once, twas long ago,
But I remember yet
That Hateful, fearful meeting, Oh
How can l e'er forgets
The Summer day was near tie end,
The red sun sinking fast.
Had set, as l with her, my friend,
Down through the meadow passed
Her rustic beauty chsrmei me quite,
Her shy and modest grace,
All else forgot, that Summer night
I gszed into her face.
But quick the separation came,
A pang shot through my heart;
Our ways were not TO be the same;
Stern fate forced us apart.
All. me-, how painful memory now
Fills recollection full
The girl l might forget, but how
Can forget that bullg
-Somerville Journal.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
A New "Fake.o

A girl thirteen years old, belonging to
a spiritualist family in Gilroy, CAL, has
startled the community by communica.
tions and penciled sketches, of heads,
supposed to be from life. These written
messages and likenesses appear on her
arm and often remain visible for an hour.
The father of the girl says they come
and go on the girls bare arm, evidently
under the %cuticle, and cannot be washed
away. A statement which has gained
currency that the girl is in the habit of
sewing carbon tracing paper in her
sleeves is Indignantly denied by the
family, and many regard her as a most
remarkable medium,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05

And Got His First glimpse Of .
Railroad A Mountain wild
Flower.

0Es
He was a big, strapping fellow, prob
ably 20 years old and weighing $50
pounds. As he walked into the police
station yesterday afternoon his shoe
less feet made no noise.
"I'm from Ducktown, Tennessee"
he said, in response to Capt. COUGHS
questions. my name is William
Ward, an l come to ten United
States Court"
He was a typical mcuntaineer,
strong and not bad-looking. He
wasn't much OF a dude in his cotton
shirt and homespun breeches.
This was his first sight OF a city.
His mountain home is fifty miles from
a railroad, and in order to reach At
lanta he walked those fifty miles. He
had never een a railroad or a train of
cars before, and never owned a book,
could neither read nor write, knew
nothing Of what are generally known
as the comforts of life-yet was happy.
The officers about the station-house
took an interest in him, and began
plying him with questions. He had
been subp9naed to appear in the
United States Court as a witness in an
illicit distillery case. He had come
$50 miles, and is entitled to ten cents
per mile as mileage.
did you even have that much be-
fore?" asked Capt. Crouch.
"No, l reckon not. Never saw that
much before"
HWh do vo1, dooO
sob, l work for a fellow. 1 don't
get any pay. He told me he'd do the
right thing by me. l amt going to
work for hal any more. Would stay
here if l could get something to do"
He was asked to sit down. He
looked s~uspiciously at the chair pointed
out to him, shook it gently and sat
on the doorstep. OF course he didn't
know anything about making corn
whisky, but he had hunted and had
brought down many a deer and
turkey.
"Do you use caps on guns up
there?"
ga few of the fellers have them
new guns, but flint and steel is good
enough for most of u.s."
He looked it.
Later in the evening he was offered
some supper, but he had his hunk OF
venison and corn bread with him.
Then he curled up on the floor of the
courtroom, and in a few minutes was
sound asleep, free from care and
happy.-Atlanta Constitution.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
Young, hut Wfckea.

Minnie DemorsA the adopted daughter
OF James Henderson, of Manistee,
Mich, confesses to poisoning her foster.
fathers cows to get rid of having to
milk them. She set FIRE to Henderson's
house five times, and smothered the
baby of Henderson, who died q few
weeks ago suddenly, because she didn't
want to nurse it. The girl is only II
years Of age,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
lust What YOu Want,

P. Il. HUI is just in receipt of q large
lot of glassware and c%rockery. Also, q
fine assortment Of library and psrlor
lamps-the finest ever brought to the
market. Also, q nice assortment OF silk
plush cabinet frames, and frame mould
ings. Also, carpets, oilcloth and mating,
bird cages. He has Also just been made
agent for the celebrated light-running
domestic" sewing machines, which are
now on exhibition at his store on South
Main street. They sre of all sizes and all
prices. n
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05

Forty-ive years ago there wasn't a
postage stamp in the United States,
says the Buffalo Courier, but in the
last twelve months the people of
this country have individually and
severally put their tongues out l 1885,
341 900 times to moisten the post
age stamps for the billions of letters
and millions of newspapers, periodi-
Gals and parcels that are carried and
delivered by the Government.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
Unhealthy Cou0meme,.

"Hello, Smith, you look pale and
thin. Been ILL.,"
"I've been confined to m y room for
just a year. This is the first time I've
been on the streets for twelve months, "
What was the matter with your"
"Nothing. But my attorney couldn't
make the jury think So"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
CIeveIand's Affection for M~instrelsy

President Cleveland's reception in
Chicago took place in the Columbia
Theater, and the manager, Dan Shelby,
had to turn out a minstrel company to
make for the guests. He intimates
that the President would have liked a
combination of minstrels and reception:
"Tm an old Bufalonian, you know, and
know Cleveland from way back. We
went to school together, we did, and
when l was a negro minstrel and he was
a rising young lawyer he came to the
show every time 1 was on the stage.
Lord, how he used to enjoy the old min.
strel gags l got off! l think 1 hear him
laughing now. He likes EN- as we'll as
ever, and when he heard that his coming
to my house would put a minstrel com.
pany out he telegraphed on and tried To
have a combination of Haverlv's min.
strels show at his reception. He is a
great friend of the minstrels, and one Of
his first acts after he became President
was to secure a reduction of the tariff on
burnt cork"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER.
The Charming Massachusetts DAM
sci Who is q DevOtee to OphiOl.


She lives in Maiden; she is seventeen
years old, or thereabouts, and she is an
ophiologist-that is to say, her speciality
is snakes. Very often, in pleasant Sum.
mer weather, this young girl, with hands
clad in high buck gloves and armed with
a bottle of chloroform, turks about the
fens and pools and thickets watching for
snakes, a girl fair to look upon, saunter.
ing, one might imagine, with eyes upon
the ground, in maiden meditation, fancy
free. She is in maiden meditation, IN
deed, but not fancy free, because her
fancy is bound to snakes and she is
searching intently for some variety not
yet added to her collection of several
hundred. Presently she stops; with an
eager CLEAN in her eye she crouches along
a step or two, her glove-clad right hand
drawn back as ii to clutch some object;
she springs forward toward the ground
with a swift motion, and then stands
erect with the body of a snake writhing
about her arm in desperate throes. She
has it by the neck and proceeds calmly
to thrust its head into the neck Of her
bottle of chloroform.
Not many days ago this young scien-
fist, after a rather desperate contest,
captured in the fells a black snake so
large and powerful that when it wrapped
itself in the mad grasp of its body about
her arm it strained her cords and muscles
SO severely that she was lame for a week.
1t did not prevent her, however, from
~sallying forth again, and when she hap
pened to perceive, at the margin of a
pool, a big water-snake of a variety
which she had not secured for her col.
lection, she lay in wait for it. AS the
snake bounced upon a frog she bounced
upon the snake, but the reptile was in
his element, and escaped her. Was she
to be baf1ed in this way Not at all.
She managed to anchor a frog in some
way upon a stone at the edge of the
pool, at a spot where the bank was over.
hung with bushes. Then she stealthily
laid herself fat upon her face under the
bushes at the brink of the water, and
there she lay in ambush for a long time,
when the snake curiously eyed the frog.
AT last the snake, with sudden resolu.
ton, made bold to seize the frog; but as
he did so a gloved hand, swifter thar his
own sinuous motion, darted from the
bank, and he was a prisoner. splashing
the water of the pool in his vain effort to
escape. The girl has one grief-she has
not been able to capture with her own
hands a rattlesnake.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
CLASSES. 4sfsssSn-

We are now prepared to furnish all classes
with employment at home. the whole of the
time, or for their spare moments. Business
new, light aud profitable. Persons OF either
sex easily earn from 50 cents to IS per evening,
and . proportional sum by d~evoting all their
time to the business. Boys and girls earn al
most as much as men,. That all who see this
may send their address, and test the bnsinass
we make this offer. To such as are not we'll
satisfied We will send one dollar to pay for In
trouble of writing. For full particulars nm
outht free address, GEORGE STINsoN L Co.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
Abba Lodge No. |, A. 0. D. v.

THE REGULAR MEETINGS OF ALPHA
Lodge No. /, A. o. U. w., will be held In
Odd Fellows Hall on the second and fourth
Thursday of each month. The next regu-
lar meeting will be october ID, 1887, at 1850
o'clock 2. ".
1. @. C. wHITMORE, Recorder.
Eureka, Sept. !, 1887. slim
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05

mt n fields are scarce, but those who
iii, write to Stinson h Co., Portland.
UUllU Maine, will receive free, full infor-
- nation about work which they can
do and live at homo. that will pay them from
IS to $25 per day. Some have earned over $50
in . day. Either sex, young or old. Capital
not required. You are started FREQ. Those
who start at once are absolutely sure Of snug
Aitueforounes. Allts nev. a5-6m
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
SOCIETIES.
g.. A. R..
EUREKA LODGE no. AL. 0. OF.

THE REGULAR MEETING OF EUREKA
Lodge No. %, l. o. o. F., will be held In
odd Fellows Hall every Wednesday evening at
Z O'Clock. .
Members of sister Lodges, and sojourning
brethren in good standing, are invited T., at
tend. JOHN ny.
W. 8. BEARD, Secretary. auZf
The Republican journal., 1887-08-25
Our Greeting TO the Thistle.

On li,r ~aN across the ocean.
Rocked by TRANSATLANTIC motion.
Comes the noble >loop yacht Thistle on wor-
thy mission bent.
Seeking by her great completeness.
BY her breadth Of beam and nccinr>>
For famous long->ouGht trophy for olr cup
has she hreli sent.
In her calm. majestic >l,lcnor
sails our noble cups defender.
And her Wet Dric> are greeted with Patriotic.
cheer.
NeNci yet was such Il wonder.
Never yet was water under
Nuch mat HESS. perfect yacll. rs our good
Volunteer.
swiftly is the Thistle coming.
May .folu> keep her cumming.
May her white wings soon he nin.lin~ With
the white wings Of our fleet
May oar \ ankre sons and daughters
r. She gii,ie> into our waters
Give friendly welcome to this boat 50 trim
and neat
Thistle, we viii gladly erect YOU.
We will try our best to beat ,n.i
With our sharp proved beat ui steel! the
Iueenly Volunteer.
Only time tali tell the story.
Bl if ours j. all the glory
We shall be glad to greet YOU last about tlli,
tine next year.
Tom Mason in the \. y. Evening sun
The Republican journal., 1887-08-25
BABY HuMORS
And al: Skin ana. Seal? Dis
eases Speedily Cured by
SGs:CJsS,

Cur iittl" son will be four years of age on the
IN Inst. In May l>S', he WAS attacked with II
very painful breaking ost of the skin. We called
III Z physician who treated him f"l about four
weeks. The child received little OF no good from
tho treatment, as the breaking ont, supposed by
tc ply sciaii to he hives in an aggravated form,
became larger in hGtrhcs, and more and more dis
trcesing. We were frequently obliged to get up in
the night aud rub him With soda in water, strong
lnmcniS, ctt. Finally. we called other Ihy sicalfS,
until no less tlan sin had attempted 10 cure him,
all alike failing, and the child steadily getting
worse and worse until about the Goth OF last July,
wien we began 10 give him Ci-rICt'HA RESoINENT
internally, ana the q T1ti lA, and CO r1tt IA SOAR
externally, and by the last of August he 80
nearly well that we gave him only one dose OF The
EE>oLN EN- about every second day for about ten
days longer. anI he ha- never been troubled since
with Tie horrible malady In All we used les than
one half OF bottle of CITICi-RA RE>oiNENr, Il
little les than one box of trTlciEA, and only one
cake Of Ct IICIEA SOAR.
II. +. RYAN. Cuyuga, Liz jn2stun Co, III,
Subscribed and sworn 1" before this fourth
day oi january, lSS.. {. y. coz J. L.
The Republican journal., 1887-08-25
George H. Patch.

As some dark cloud in >ullcn course.
shuts out the mid,'ay's glowing sun.
SO death with swift, reSistleSS force.
Bots out the life while yet It's noon.
When. with the strains of music proud.
From hard won fields our heroes come.
With silver trumpets Drawing loud.
We forward press 10 greet them home.
We garland them with sweetest flowers
We greet with cheers the army blue.
And proud and glad to call them our.
We give them welcome sweet and true.
Bring flowers of rare perfume to-day.
Bring choice blossoms fair and sweet
Brin" laurel wreath and crown of BAY,
And place them at his head and feet
To-day the gallant soldier sleeps
With naught of pain or earthly fear,
While Der his bier the comradc wecp>
And hearts are full of l!lShcd tears.
FOR Hill no more the >ouiil shall come
That called the brave and true to arms
No battle cry. 10 >.irrin. drum.
No country, call. TO wai'> alarMS.
lie gave in life the fl!ls>t need
OF faith and trust and friendship due.
y >te!hia>i friend ii hour of reed.
y tender guide. Il r"inralr true.
\ noble life. well planned. wei. s;,e.ri.
His memory blessed incense brings:
sweet he his sleep meath low green tent.
Whose curtain EcNrr outward swings.
HELEN y. PACKARD.